throughout DC by the Tyrant and his trained puppets in Congress, do you?
Posted on 02/14/2013 8:14:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Say thanks to Jeff Poor and the Daily Caller for enduring the Ludovico-ish process needed to tally these numbers. The "200 times" figure comes with an asterisk: Turns out Rachel Maddow alone accounted for more than half the replays by putting the clip of Rubio reaching for the water on a loop, tucked into a corner of the screen, for 13 minutes while she and Steve Kornacki were hashing out the particulars of his speech. (Seeing is believing.) Jon Stewart once chided her and MSNBC for beating the "teabagger" joke into the ground, but in hindsight he should be glad she never resorted to a push-button morning-zoo-style soundboard for the T-word. She's always been touted as a more civil, substantive alternative to Olbermann, and in fairness this episode bears that out. If Olby were still on the air, he would have run the clip for the full hour.
At Mediaite, Joe Concha looks at the tone of the coverage across various networks and wonders how it's come to this:
Since old, white, stuffy Mitt Romney’s defeat in November, the media has lectured us on what kind of candidate the GOP needs to produce, which actually sounds similar to a remedy for a struggling baseball team: Republicans need to get younger, more diverse, stronger up the middle.
So what happens when a respected 41-year-old Cuban-American Republican U.S. Senator is put on the national stage?
The media turns him into a punch line. And if you’re like most Americans too busy to devote hours of time to watch the State of the Union and its rebuttal, the news you got this morning portrayed Rubio as Cindy in the infamous spelling bee episode of the Brady Bunch (Cindy aces all tests in school until a red light on a camera during a televised contest freezes her beyond repair).
Poor impression made.
Mission accomplished.
What’s interesting about the Maddow segment is that she actually does engage with the specifics of Rubio’s speech yet still felt obliged to have the water clip running over and over onscreen, which ends up distracting from the commentary. But then, why limit yourself to convincing the viewer with your argument when you can condition them to view Rubio as a ridiculous figure with visual cues too? She might as well have skipped the clip and simply delivered her commentary over a flashing banner, “DO NOT TAKE MARCO RUBIO SERIOUSLY.”
If you exclude the 101 replays on Maddow’s show, you’re still at 100 replays for the day. On Fox, the clip ran an average of once every 90 minutes over 18 hours; on CNN a bit more than every 30 minutes, with Wolf Blitzer accounting for most of that; and on MSNBC, naturally, every 20 minutes. Here’s the guy whom MSNBC has airing at 6 p.m., the national news hour, predictably mispronouncing Rubio’s name and demonstrating that he still hasn’t learned that you don’t need to shout on a TV set the way you do on a theater stage to make your voice heard. Nice job by Reverend Al’s writers, though: This is, by current standards, legitimately SNL-quality comedy.
Rubio drinking water sorta de bunks the democrats saying the republicans want to poison the water..
I must say I’ve never really understood how people fall for Alinsky. Anybody who withstood bullying on the playground should be able to see through this childish and mendacious propaganda. But then Goebbels was the Alinsky of his generation and look how that turned out.
CNN Absurdly Asks If Rubio’s Sip of Water Was ‘Career-Ender’
EXCERPT:
So can a drink of water make or break a political career?” Blitzer asked. “A U.S. Senator, possible presidential candidate. We’re going to find out, whether he likes it or not.” [CLICK ABOVE LINK FORT HE VIDEO]
Alinsky...Alinsky...Alinsky....its in the “Rules”.
RE: Rubio drinking water sorta debunks the democrats saying the republicans want to poison the water..
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Colorado governor drank Fracking fluid ( and it was OK ).
That alone should disqualify him. From anything.
How dare a mere Senator drink the Kings water?
Next time, Rubio should say excuse me or pardon me, and then deliberately drinking the water.
Smart guy - he turned it into a fund raiser for his PAC: http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2013/02/14/marco-rubio-water-bottle-fundraising/1919135/
The things that make news what next flea lands on dog.
I kinda like it.
We need a 3 minute loop of Hussein starting in 2007 making assertions and promises NONE, NOT ONE OF WHICH WERE EVER KEPT.
Might even include Hillary's famous HYSTERICAL outbust about patriotism in dissent, and Pelosi's "We have to pass the bill to allow you to see what's in it..."
Seeing that loop in the corner of the screen in all political discussions would make my days a lot easier to take.
...or a fly landing on what flies are usually attracted to...
I am withholding judgement until I see a thread entitled, “How Do We Know It Was Just Water In That Bottle?”
Indeed I find more news about this country in the UK than here.
We ain’t seen nothin yet. The left is just getting started. Last night a lefty on Foxnews was irate over HOW MUCH water Rubio drank.
Gee Whiz, I remember Jackie Gleason drinking “water” from a coffee cup and using the action as a “sight gag.”
And now, OMGosh, drinking water on national television!
I notice there is no outcry about Bamma Oop going on his second vacation in 2013.
“Oh, the pain, the pain!” (quote from Dr. Smith, a character in Lost in Space)
The thing that bugged me about his speech, he seemed nervous and was talking really fast.
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